[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #29687: Original image should be visible in media-library after image-processing

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#29687: Original image should be visible in media-library after image-processing
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 Reporter:  arkonisus    |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Media        |     Version:  4.0
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:  ui, administration
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Changes (by mikeschroder):

 * focuses:  administration => ui, administration


Comment:

 Howdy!  Thanks for reporting/opening the ticket.

 WordPress does currently duplicate a size in the media gallery when it
 happens for purpose built sizes (header/logo), since presumably we know
 it’s meant to be a new use case entirely, but not for images in the
 general case. This behaviour tends to, in my opinion, clutter the gallery,
 and make it difficult to find which image you are actually looking for.

 That said, I definitely agree that we need a better way of handling
 multiple versions of "master" images in core.

 This is not well handled by the UI/UX of the media gallery, nor by the
 code that underpins it. Ideally, there would be a simple way to see one
 image in the gallery, and then use the most appropriate version of it,
 whether manually, or automatically.

 As to your second point, the reason it currently does not do this is if
 you have previous links to those images in your content, we don't want to
 delete the images and break them. A partial workaround for this behavior
 can be found in the `IMAGE_EDIT_OVERWRITE` define
 ([https://deliciousbrains.com/undefined-define-image_edit_overwrite/
 written about by @bradt here]).

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